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+1  Q: 

Set background color of a control? (WinAPI)

How can I set the backcolor of a control (equivilant of control.backcolor in .Net). I tried setBKColor with no luck.

ex: TabHwnd = createWindowEx(NULL,WC_TAB....

then how could I set the back color of TabHwnd?

Thanks

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Try subclassing (see SetClassLong) and process WM_ERASEBKGND

Pavel Radzivilovsky  2010-06-23 22:22:29
There's no WinAPI function to do such a thing?
Milo  2010-06-23 22:23:31
Certainly not. But subclassing is not that hard..
Pavel Radzivilovsky  2010-06-23 22:37:25
+2  A: 

Windows will generate a message when it's painting the background of a control, and it is up to your program to respond to the message appropriately.

Mark Ransom  2010-06-23 22:34:30

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